HARDWICK – Areas of town with little or no broadband internet service on some or all of Billings, Bridgeman Hill and West Hill Roads “where NEK Broadband has extended its network” may now have service, wrote NEK Community Broadband Community Relations Manager Kitty Ufford-Chase in a July 4 notice on Front Porch Forum.
“Hardwick is one of many areas where high-speed Vermont-based internet service is now available,” she wrote. A map at get.nekbroadband.org shows where expansion work is currently being done or funding is being sought.
Customers with underground service or aerial service needs over 500 feet may be eligible for a Vermont Affordable Internet Drop Grant Program being offered by the Vermont Community Broadband Board. The program will prioritize funding for lower-income Vermonters and customers at eligible addresses who have signed up and have picked a package at get.nekbroadband.org.
NEK Broadband is a not-for-profit Communications Union District (CUD) offering internet service with speeds of 100 Mbps and higher.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
